Comparison of oocyte vitrification using a semi-automated or a manual closed system in human siblings
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PROVIDER: GSE205417 | GEO | 2022/12/01
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Project description:Comparison of oocyte vitrification using a semi-automated or a manual closed system in human siblings
| PRJNA844992 | ENA
Project description:BackgroundIndications of oocyte vitrification increased substantially over the last decades for clinical and ethical reasons. A semi-automated vitrification system was recently developed making each act of vitrification reproducible. In this study, we evaluated the efficiency of the semi-automated technique of oocyte vitrification by survival rate, morphometric assessment and resistance to empty micro-injection gesture as compared with a manual method. Additionally, we intended to evaluate transcriptomic consequences of both techniques using single-cell RNA-seq technology.ResultsPost-warming survival rate, oocyte surfaces and resistance to empty micro-injection were comparable between semi-automated and manual vitrification groups. Both oocyte vitrification techniques showed limited differences in the resulting transcriptomic profile of sibling oocytes since only 5 differentially expressed genes were identified. Additionally, there was no difference in median transcript integrity number or percentage of mitochondrial DNA between the two groups. However, a total of 108 genes were differentially expressed between fresh and vitrified oocytes (FDR < 0.05) and showed over-represented of genes related to important cellular process.ConclusionsOur results provide reassurance about the influence of semi-automation as compared with the manual vitrification method. Concerning oocyte vitrification itself, no tight common transcriptomic signature associated has been observed across studies.Trial registrationNCT03570073.
| S-EPMC9720994 | biostudies-literature
Project description:Oocyte vitrification has been introduced into clinical settings without pre-clinical safety testing. In this study, we analyzed the safety of human oocyte
2015-03-24 | GSE63866 | GEO
Project description:Ex vivo activation and expansion of natural killer (NK) cells is a strategy to produce sufficient numbers of these effector cells for adoptive immunotherapy. Therefore we aimed at the development of an automated, clinical scale NK cell expansion process and compared NK cells after manual and automated expansion.We found only a small subset of 124 genes that significantly varied between both sample groups. These genes were associated with movement of leukocytes were identified including a group of genes for NK cell movement (CMKLR1, CX3CR1, S1PR5, GNLY and CXCR1) which were slightly higher expressed after automated compared to manual expansion. Nevertheless, the expansion profiles of NK cells after automated or manual expansion were rather similar in comparison to the remarkable difference between primary and expanded NK cells in general represented by the vast majority of regulated genes between the analyzed sample groups. Pathway analysis revealed that most of regulated genes upon expansion were associated with cell cycle regulation, DNA replication, DNA recombination and DNA repair, regulation of apoptosis and cell survival as well as cytokine signaling. Furthermore, the expression of many NK cell relevant markers was changed upon expansion with the strongest effects on up regulation of TRAIL and FASL, inhibitory TIGIT and chemokine receptors CCR2, CCR5 and CXCR6. In addition, granzyme M was down regulated but other important effector molecules like TNFa, perforin and granzymes A, B and K were up regulated. In summary we could show that manual and automatically expanded NK cells show a similar expansion profile while the differ significantly from primary NK cells. Up regulation of many NK cell relevant markers indicate for an enhanced NK cell functionaility after ex vivo activation and expansion.
2015-04-23 | GSE62654 | GEO
Project description:Ex vivo activation and expansion of natural killer (NK) cells is a strategy to produce sufficient numbers of these effector cells for adoptive immunotherapy. Therefore we aimed at the development of an automated, clinical scale NK cell expansion process and compared NK cells after manual and automated expansion.We found only a small subset of 124 genes that significantly varied between both sample groups. These genes were associated with movement of leukocytes were identified including a group of genes for NK cell movement (CMKLR1, CX3CR1, S1PR5, GNLY and CXCR1) which were slightly higher expressed after automated compared to manual expansion. Nevertheless, the expansion profiles of NK cells after automated or manual expansion were rather similar in comparison to the remarkable difference between primary and expanded NK cells in general represented by the vast majority of regulated genes between the analyzed sample groups. Pathway analysis revealed that most of regulated genes upon expansion were associated with cell cycle regulation, DNA replication, DNA recombination and DNA repair, regulation of apoptosis and cell survival as well as cytokine signaling. Furthermore, the expression of many NK cell relevant markers was changed upon expansion with the strongest effects on up regulation of TRAIL and FASL, inhibitory TIGIT and chemokine receptors CCR2, CCR5 and CXCR6. In addition, granzyme M was down regulated but other important effector molecules like TNFa, perforin and granzymes A, B and K were up regulated. In summary we could show that manual and automatically expanded NK cells show a similar expansion profile while the differ significantly from primary NK cells. Up regulation of many NK cell relevant markers indicate for an enhanced NK cell functionaility after ex vivo activation and expansion. 24 samples were analyzed in total. 6 biological replicates represented by cells from different donors. 4 different samples per donor: freshly isolated NK cells (d0) and NK cells expanded for 14 days under 3 different conditions: in co-culture with EBV-LCL feeder cells and 500 U/mL IL2 either cultivated manually in T75 flasks (T) or automatically using the CliniMACS Prodigy system (P); NK cells cultured with 500 U/ml IL2 without feeder cells (I)
2015-04-23 | E-GEOD-62654 | biostudies-arrayexpress
Project description:Vitrification cryopreservation of oocytes is an enabling technology for assisted reproductive technology. However, many factors in the vitrification process, such as the toxicity of cryoprotectant, osmotic stress, ice crystal formation during rewarming, will cause fatal damage to oocytes, thus affecting the embryo developmental potential and subsequent clinical outcomes. Therefore, oocyte vitrification still faces significant challenges. Recent studies have shown that LEA protein has the potential to improve oocyte cryopreservation, while the molecular mechanism by which it exerts protective effects is still unclear. Therefore, we have systematically investigated the effects of LEA proteins on the vitrification cryopreservation and their molecular mechanisms. Results revealed that the proteins improved the developmental potential of human oocytes following cryopreservation, mostly by downregulating FOS genes and reducing oxidative stress. Moreover, the synergistic cryoprotection of LEA proteins by inhibiting the formation of ice crystals was given full play. This study provides a new strategy for high-quality cryopreservation of human oocytes.
2024-04-01 | GSE239302 | GEO
Project description:We present AutoRELACS, an automated implementation of the RELACS protocol using the Biomek i7 automated workstation (Beckman&Coulter). We test the performance of AutoRELACS by assessing 1) the scalability of the chromatin barcode integration step, 2) the quality of the generated data in comparison to the benchmark set by the manual protocol, and 3) the sensitivity of the automated method when working with low (≤ 25.000 cells/sample) and very low (≤ 5.000 cells/sample) cell numbers.
2020-07-28 | GSE147042 | GEO
Project description:Vitrification is a method for long-term biological sample cryopreservation without causing intra- and extra-cellular ice formation. We recently established a novel closed vitrification system to cryopreserve mouse ovarian follicles. Using the 3D alginate hydrogel encapsulated in vitro follicle growth (eIVFG) method, we have demonstrated that compared to freshly-harvested follicles, vitrified follicles have normal follicle and oocyte reproductive outcomes. Our recent study further demonstrated the faithful preservation of molecular signatures of follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH)-stimulated follicle maturation in vitrified follicles. However, it is unknown whether ovulation, another crucial gonadotropin-dependent follicular event, and involved ovulatory gene regulatory pathways are well conserved in vitrified follicles. Fresh and vitrified follicles grown for 8 days by eIVFG were collected at 0, 1, 4 and 8-hour post human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) treatment for the single-follicle RNA sequencing. Principal component analysis (PCA) and Pearson’s correlation analysis revealed that vitrified follicles have similar transcriptomic profiles to fresh follicles. Furthermore, the expression of several genes essential for ovulation were comparable between vitrified and fresh follicles. In summary, these results demonstrate that our closed vitrification system preserves follicular transcriptomic dynamics during ex vivo ovulation. Together with our previous findings that vitrification preserves FSH-stimulated follicle maturation, the integration of vitrification of immature follicles and eIVFG has a great potential to serve as an additional fertilization preservation approach for young cancer patients and endangerers species. Moreover, follicle vitrification enables a high-content ovarian follicle biobank, which can greatly improve the throughput of eIVFG for studying ovulation biology, anovulatory disease, toxicology, and novel contraceptive drug development targeting ovulation.
2023-09-20 | GSE227091 | GEO
Project description:The Diagnostic Potential of miRNA Signatures in the Fabry Disease Serum: Automated and Manual Sample Isolations
| PRJNA1153055 | ENA
Project description:The present study mainly aimed to investigate the effect of vitrification temperature (VT) and cryoprotective agent concentrations (CPAs) on the mRNA transcriptome of bovine immature oocytes (BIOs). Cumulus oocyte complexes (COCs) were randomly divided into the following five groups: fresh oocytes (control), oocytes vitrified in liquid helium (LHe; -269℃) with 5.6 M CPAs (LHe 5.6 M), oocytes vitrified in LHe with 6.6 M CPAs (LHe 6.6 M), oocytes vitrified in liquid nitrogen (LN; -196℃) with 5.6 M CPAs (LN 5.6 M), and oocytes vitrified in LN with 6.6 M CPAs (LN 6.6 M). mRNA transcriptomes of each sample were analyzed by Smart-seq4, and the differentially expressed genes (DGEs) were detected by edgeR (p≤0.05; fold-change≥2). Compared with the control group, 505 DGEs were detected with 342 up-regulated and 163 down-regulated genes in LHe 5.6 M; 609 DGEs were detected with 493 up-regulated and 116 down-regulated gene in LHe 6.6 M; 218 DGEs were determined with 101 up-regulated and 117 down-regulated genes in LN 5.6 M; and 221 DGEs were detected with 104 up-regulated and 117 down-regulated genes in LN 6.6 M. LHe vitrification affected the mRNA transcriptome of vitrified BIOs mainly by up-regulating gene expression. Reduced CPAs (5.6 M) decreased the effect of vitrification on mRNA transcriptome when LHe vitrification was used. Among all the DGEs closely related to bovine immature oocytes, the genes possibly related to VT were ND2, MPV17L2, PIF1, LPIN1, IMP3, BRD1, DCTN3, DERA, ATP7B, NEK5, HVCN1 and MARK2. The gene that may be associated with CPAs is CC2D2A. Genes that may be affected by both VT and CPAs were PGK1, SLC7A3, FITM2, NPM3, ISCU, CWC15 and PSAP. DERA was up-regulated when reduced VT (-269 °C) was used, which may have contributed to the recovery and stress prevention of vitrified oocyte.
2022-04-02 | GSE133550 | GEO